My own backyard

I live in un-incorporated Palm Beach County. If you put the name Atlantis, Lantana or Lake Worth and my zip code number mail will get delivered here.

When addressing mail, we use Lantana. Always have. It's not a big PB County city, less than 10,000 live there. My wife works within the city limits.

Less than a mile from our home is Lantana airport. Its a small community airfield, not one that lands commercial jets(Though a Carnival airlines flight about 10 years ago almost mistook it for PBIA!). Small planes and helicopters fly in and out of it all day. You hear it all the time at my house but its not a distraction.

Today the airport is back in the news. A student pilot flipped her plane practicing touch and gos this morning. Fortunately no one was hurt.

This isn't the first accident at the airport. Since moving here in 1989, there have been at least four crashes and three involving fatalities. Two of the crashes took place on the airport property, one over by the interstate, and another about 1/8 of a mile short of the airport.

I'm not saying it's dangerous here but life certainly isn't boring.

Open Post- Bright & Early, Jo's Cafe,

LANTANA – A 49-year-old flying student from Denver walked away from a crash unharmed on Tuesday after her airplane flipped over during a touch and go exercise at the airport.The incident occurred around 10:49 a.m. at the Lantana Airport while Jeanine Davis flew solo and was completing a series of touch and go landings and takeoffs on Runway 15. Her instructor was on the ground.

On the final approach the two-seat Cessna airplane touched down, bounced, then veered and flipped over, deputies said.Davis was not injured, but damage was reported to the aircraft's nose propeller and the tail. A dollar estimate was not immediately available.